Cut with care
OPINION: The new government has clearly signalled big cuts across the public service.
A project to put fine-grained environmental mapping into the hands of farmers has been awarded one of the larger amounts in the latest round of Sustainable Farming Fund grants.
One of the first projects approved under the Government’s Sustainable Farming Fund (SFF) in 2000 targeted avocado orchard management.
A recently announced grant from MPI’s Sustainable Farming Fund will pay for the next stage of a biological control project aimed at the invasive weed field horsetail.
The funding of research into facial eczema (FE) and bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD), and better use of antimicrobials and disease management on dairy farms, has been boosted in the latest Sustainable Farming Fund round.
The 2017/18 Sustainable Farming Fund (SFF) round will be open from August 1 until September 8, 2016 for projects starting from July 1, 2017.
The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) has announced a $6.9 million investment over three years in to 25 new projects through the Sustainable Farming Fund (SFF).
An ongoing trial of integrated pest management (IPM) strategies in forage brassica crops is showing positive signs, says the insecticide maker DuPont.
New Zealand's shift from a pasture-based model to high feed-input dairy farms will come under the microscope in a joint research project.
OPINION: The new government has clearly signalled big cuts across the public service.
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